Future products will be designed with their capability to be manufactured in mind, according Autodesk executives, who spoke at Autodesk University, a gathering of users of their technology. The company has updated its software accordingly and made strides to further the use of, cloud capabilities, generative design and additive manufacturing, said Greg Fallon, vice president […]
Headset to Help Engineers with “VR Snacking”
At the Autodesk University Conference, HP unveiled its Opera Glass, a headset designed for what HP and similar vendors term “VR snacking.” The headset is intended for engineers who want to design in 3D CAD design, then quickly view that model in virtual reality. In other word,s the engineer who wants to switch quickly, and […]
Zuken, CADENAS and ECAD-Port announce component library cooperation
Zuken signed a partnership agreement with CADENAS, a leading provider of online component libraries, and ECAD-Port, a specialized provider for electrical components library services. The three partners will provide online access to free, validated, high-quality electrical component data to users of Zuken’s E³.series electrical design tools. The agreement will extend the CADENAS offering of intelligent […]
PTC adds AI and generative design to its CAD portfolio with acquisition of Frustum
PTC announced that it has acquired Frustum Inc., an advanced generative design software company, for approximately $70 million. Frustum’s technology for generative design leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to generate design options. PTC says it is a transformative addition to the PTC Creo portfolio. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Frustum offers patented desktop and cloud-based engineering software […]
The Periodic Table of online CAD
Meike Franssen, designairspace Industry giants such as NVIDIA, VMware and Amazon and upstarts such as OnShape, FRA.ME and designairspace (the author of this article) are on a mission to bring the CAD industry to the cloud. We’re all determined to revolutionize how CAD applications run. To us, the change is on a Windows-level scale. The […]
Beyond the Moon: JPL and Autodesk Collaborate on Space Lander
A collaborative effort to create the concept for an interplanetary lander was unveiled at Autodesk World held this week in Las Vegas. The collaboration would be between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and engineering software maker Autodesk. To accomplish a mission like this, an interplanetary lander needs to perform complicated operational functions in temperatures far below […]
IMAGINiT Pulse increases business critical data sharing
Developed to overcome data workflow challenges facing design and manufacturing engineers and architects, IMAGINiT Pulse now offers more integrations with multiple business systems and software platforms as well as support for the Autodesk Vault 2019 product release. Visitors to IMAGINiT at Autodesk University (AU) 2018 in Las Vegas, NV will see first-hand how they can […]
Partnerships Key to Continuing Autonomous Vehicle Development, Siemens Says
To physically verify the safety of an autonomous vehicle (AV), Toyota estimates that a vehicle would have to undergo tests that ran along about 8.8 billion miles. Of course, testing on this many miles of test tracks is pretty much impossible. Automakers must rely on a significant increase in virtual testing and “mixed virtual-physical testing,” […]
International TechneGroup announces GoToINVENTOR for Autodesk customers
International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) introduces GoToINVENTOR software. GoToINVENTOR offers feature-based translation that enables the transfer of complete design intelligence from major CAD systems to INVENTOR with up to 100% automation and enhanced efficiency. GoToINVENTOR is based on ITI’s Proficiency software technology. By providing functional models that retain the original product knowledge in INVENTOR, GoToINVENTOR maximizes […]
Dental Industry Sees Growth of 3D Printing
ISmarTech Publishing expects to see that market increase to $9.5 billion by 2027, according to the research agency’s 2018 report on the 3D printed dental market. In 2017, 3D printing went mainstream in the dental industry, he report noted. Additive manufacturing within the dental industry has grown by more than 35 percent in both 2016 […]
Arena Solutions acquires Omnify Software
Arena Solutions, a leading cloud-based product realization platform for complex electronics and medical device companies, has acquired Omnify Software, a leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for discrete manufacturers. Omnify is based in Andover, Mass. with a large customer base in the electronics, medical devices, aerospace and defense, and telecommunications markets. Its experienced […]
Many Ways Tolerance Analysis Software Can Help
Somehow you don’t hear much about tolerance and tolerance analysis. Obviously geometric dimensions and tolerances are a big part of every engineer’s life and, as with anything so everyday, yet vital, software has been created to help. As engineers examine the interaction of critical components in systems, they are typically performing some level of tolerance […]
Dutch Pedestrians Take First Walk Over 3D-Printed Bridge
MX3D, a maker of robotic additive manufacturing technology in Amsterdam has finalized the design for its 3D printed steel bridge, which is now on display at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. The bridge, designed by Joris Laarman Lab, will then be installed at its final location on the Oudezijds Achterburgwal, one of […]
Altair and Oracle offer faster high-performance computing in the cloud
Altair (Nasdaq:ALTR) has expanded its relationship with Oracle to offer on-demand, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, accelerating external aerodynamics and other complex flow simulations. This new offering, powered by GPU technology, provides a highly-scalable solution at an affordable cost. There is growing demand for solutions that enable increasingly more complex optimization-driven […]
CAD’s Role in Comsol Multiphysics Modeling
Geometry has central role in setting up multiphysics simulations, said Lorant Olasz, Comsol’s technical product manager working with CAD. He spoke earlier this month at the Comsol Conference held in Boston. Comsol makes Multiphysics modeling software. The software contains two engines for creating and managing geometry: the native geometric kernel that’s part of the basic […]
Multiphysics for Many Applications
Speakers at the recent Comsol conference in Boston updated attendees on how they use the company’s multiphysics software across a range of industries, including education, energy, and medical. Let’s break it down further: For Students It’s no secret that prospective employers are looking for new graduates who have product design and simulation skills. To ensure […]
Altair acquires SIMSOLID
Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has acquired SIMSOLID, a company founded by asking a simple question: “Why does the geometry used in the Design and Structural Simulation worlds have to be so different?” SIMSOLID works on full-fidelity CAD assemblies to provide fast, accurate, and robust structural simulation without requiring geometry simplification, cleanup, or meshing. Its underlying technology […]
AM progresses as EOS, Siemens intensify cooperation around industrial 3D printing
Bruce Jenkins | Ora Research The race to dominate digital engineering technologies and physical production devices for additive manufacturing just took a significant step forward with a new, tighter cooperation between Siemens and EOS. EOS, which bills itself—with considerable credibility—as “the world’s leading technology supplier in the field of industrial 3D printing of metals and […]
How driverless cars will change design
Automated vehicles (AVs) will disrupt the way mechanical engineers work with their peers and how they share design information. Here’s what you can expect. Jean Thilmany, Senior Editor Tomorrow’s vehicles will be electrified, connected, and will include many automated functions, including the capability to navigate roads on their own—without a driver’s intervention. In other words, […]
Product design app offers live collaborative 3D CAD editing, not just viewing
Onshape is partnering with Magic Leap on a new 3D product design app for its spatial computing universe. The CAD app will be developed for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, a lightweight, wearable computer that allows digital content to step out of the screen and into the real world. When wearing Magic Leap’s Lightwear […]
Verisurf 2018 Software Update 1
Verisurf Software, Inc. announced the release of Verisurf 2018 Update 1, the latest update of its popular measurement software for automated quality inspection and reporting, scanning and reverse engineering, tool building and assembly guidance. Advanced new features in this update are based on customer feedback, and deliver increased efficiency, and improved quality functions. “At Verisurf […]
Comsol Users Can Now Email a Link to Their Multiphysics Apps
We talked about the update to Comsol’s multiphysics software last week, let’s beak out in a little more detail more the uses for Comsol’s multiphysics modeling and analysis, which now includes a feature that allows users to share the apps they’ve designed in a single, executable file for unlimited use and distribution. That means others […]
COMSOL releases Version 5.4, introduces two new products
COMSOL has announced the latest version of COMSOL Multiphysics Version 5.4, which in addition to two new products, provides performance improvements and additional modeling tools. New COMSOL Compiler COMSOL Compiler allows you to create standalone COMSOL Multiphysics applications. Compiled applications are bundled with COMSOL Runtime= – no COMSOL Multiphysics or COMSOL Server license required to […]
System-Level modeling is a smarter approach to vehicle design
The demand for innovation is universal across industries, as new products are required to meet higher performance standards without slowing the overall time to market. This reality is perhaps most apparent in the automotive industry, where a wide range of technologies must come together seamlessly if a new product is to be successful. At China […]
“3D Evolution Simplifier” simplifies the handling of large CAD data models
The “3D_Evolution Simplifier” of the German-French software manufacturer CoreTechnologie is software for the fast and fully automatic simplification of CAD data. The tool converts and handles the reading and writing of all popular formats such as Catia V5 and V6, NX, Solidworks, Creo, Inventor, Step, IGES, JT, XT, FBX, DWG and DGN. In addition to […]